Ali Asad

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

Is it right to blame the players for Pakistan's deep losses in cricket? I don't think so

Two things can be simultaneously true - this is the best squad available, and it is close to the worst Pak team in history

The blame then lies NOT with the players, but elsewhere

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

Read this thread and ask the right questions, PLEASE!! I'm not a doctor, but my family and close friends are. People have no idea what they go through. Don't put this on doctors. System offers an oversupply of professionals no job opportunities, poor pay, or basic equipment.

[Zayla Ahmed @ZaylaAhmed0]

1.NICU locked tha q k bachey kidnap ho jatey hain. Ye Pakistan hai. (We have plenty of case)

2. Doctors are not supposed to stay in NICU all the time. They round and stay in duty room and check on patient from time to time. They can also have a human need(bathroom break etc).

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

You wake up in Pakistan to news of a child raped and murdered, infants dying in a hospital explosion, and countless other tragedies.

You grieve. You move on. And you stay silent-because speaking out may anger those in power.

I have the privilege to leave. Millions don't.

#PIMS

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

@TheSaadKaiser bhai ne aaj Twitter band kardiya hai. 🤣

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

This is probably the dumbest take anyone could have. All concerns are about its legitimacy.

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

There are folks in Islamabad with 10 million rupee cars who are about to drop 10,000 per head on a meal but they will fight the parking coupon guy to the death to avoid paying 50-100 rupees (15-33 US cents).

[bozo🫧 @baldtarbooze]

what’s the minimum acceptable salary in pakistan for a guy to go like yes now i can get married to someone and carry their expenses?

[Hassan @Gotoxytop2]

A young resident doctor earns 110-120K/month with works weeks ranging from 65-75 hrs/week.

This many work hours in extremely stressful environment unlike any other field and yet I am seeing people questioning PIMS doctors protesting on petrol hikes. Crazy country.

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

@MissAnamSaeed Having invested across the board, I’ve realized we’re just moving money in circles. There’s no real growth at the crux of it. By the time the average citizen joins, the scheme is done. I'm sitting on "dead" assets because the ecosystem is built on hype, not productivity.

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

Bsd k English main Crowdsourced independent journalism likhne se bheek mangnay ko glorify karne ka tariqa thora casual tha.

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

Same

[Hadi @lolnvmtho]

i am not ashamed to admit that while i am grateful for having a job, i do not enjoy working.

[Multan Sultans @MultanSultans]

Mardan’s own joins the Sultans.

Welcome, Aitizaz Habib.

#newsultans #totalcricket

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

From belief to contract. Proud to watch my guys sign for Multan Sultans.

[Multan Sultans @MultanSultans]

Mardan’s own joins the Sultans.

Welcome, Aitizaz Habib.

#newsultans #totalcricket

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

Btaoe guysss

[Talha Nawaz @TalhaDigital007]

🚨🚨🚨

Sultans 🤝 Abbottabad 🏃🙋👀

Guess who will join Multan Sultans........

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

T20 cricket has devolved into batsmen vs bowling machines. Who will hit the most sixes? Is this even a match worth watching? 😊 #T20Cricket #IndiaVsNewZealand #WCFinal

[Ali Asad @aliasad993]

Isko sharam bhi nai ati ye likhte huye.

[Khawaja M. Asif @KhawajaMAsif]

Fake royal and second generation fugitive living with his masters and offering himself to ghost bidders. His father sold himself to Anglo American interests, then ran away when Iran turned against western economic slavery, came back when democratic nationalist govt of Musadagh was removed by Anglo Americans and for next 3 decades Iran was an outpost of western imperialism.

[Hassan @Gotoxytop2]

You can still sell chooran to awam that such massive price hike in petrol is due to war etc but when ministers, judges etc keep getting free fuel with massive entourage on roads, you look like an asshole.

[Gurpriya @GurpriyaSidhu]

Men all over the world are 'monitoring the situation' because geopolitics is the olympics of masculine aggression. There is no bigger sporting event for this category.